Today we are excited to announce the Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ Weekend Pass Free* Trial. Now for a limited time, you will be able to live out your very own Star Wars™ saga with thousands of other players for free! With the Star Wars: The Old Republic Weekend Pass Free Trial, individuals who don’t already have a previously-active Star Wars: The Old Republic account will be allowed to see a portion of what the game has to offer, free of charge, with no payment method required, for up to four days!

Individuals who take part in the Weekend Pass will be able to experience the opening adventures of each of the eight character classes, exploring both their Origin World and their faction’s Capital World. Additionally, Weekend Pass players will have the chance to face off against other players in PvP Warzones, or join up with friends and play through a couple of early faction-specific Flashpoints in the game, The Esseles and The Black Talon.

Cutter wrote on Mar 13, 2012, 16:31:They expect people to download 30 or 40 gigs for a weekend pass? LOL! Keep on smokin that rock, fellas! With virtually every other MMO out there being F2P you'd think they'd realize that the client has to be cheap or free ASAP. Wait till GW2 arrives, then you'll see them scrambling to do some shit. However, It'll be too late after that regardless of what they do.

So when GW2 expects you to download the entire client for a beta weekend, that's "standard". When SWTOR expects you to download the entire client for a free weekend (SAME THING) they're "smokin that rock".

You sir, are a complete fucking tool.

Well that's enough of your stupidity. One more moron goes on ignore./quote]

OK well let's just put the aggression aside and put on our "understand the other person" hats on.

I for one played SWTOR for a month and give it a honest go. The game was OK. Not awesome, but it was alright, just not enough to keep me paying the monthly sub. The installed game may span 30GB or so with all the patches, but the installer files I'm sure are as compressed as they can be(if memory serves me correctly, SWTOR came with 3(?) DVDs for installation).

This would definitely be a concern for people limited by usage based billing, being milked by their ISP's.

At the same it's fairly commonplace for PC games to require patching at a fairly regular interval. Anyhow I don't know. There's no answer for gigantic games streamed through Steam services or otherwise, if your bandwidth usage is limited.

Onlive could be an option, but as far as I've checked, not sure if they support any MMO's...yet...